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I feel like it's not that high for a CEO salary at a mature compnay. Staff-level engineers are routinely paid upwards of 1M these days (yay inflation). 6M for a

• _dark_matter_ 3y ago
  Routinely??? I don't know of one staff level that gets paid that much
  • dheera 3y ago
    https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-engineer/levels/e7 https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-... https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-engineer/levels/senior-principal-sde https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-en... https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-engineer/levels/l7 https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en... https://www.levels.fyi/companies/apple/salaries/software-engineer/levels/distinguished-engineer https://www.levels.fyi/companies/apple/salaries/software-eng...
    • tehbeard 3y ago
      Strange how none of those listed are Mozilla... https://www.levels.fyi/companies/mozilla/salaries/software-engineer https://www.levels.fyi/companies/mozilla/salaries/software-e... Looks arround the $170-200k level....
    • mattl 3y ago
      Distinguished engineers aren't really 'staff-level'
      • dheera 3y ago
        Oh bleh, distinguished members of "the staff" that works there, one of those things, either way, these are all far below the CEO and 1M+
    • underdeserver 3y ago
      These are all senior staff and up. Not one of these is staff level.
    • qwertywert_ 3y ago
      Those aren't staff.
• FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  > Staff-level engineers are routinely paid upwards of 1M these days Yeah, at successful high performing trillion dolar tech companies like Nvidia or Apple, not broke*ss underperforming companies like Mozilla. >6M for a CEO doesn't sound unreasonable. It's unreasonable when you take into account Mozilla's lack of performance over the years. Where is their success, other than being kept on life support by being bankrolled by Google who's doing it solely to avoid anti-trust litigations over their monopoly on the browser market. In a way, this is actually harming Firefox, knowing that they'll always be funded no matter how their product performs, just so that Alphabet has a legal David to their Goliath, gives them little incentive to try to be competitive.
  • dheera 3y ago
    > Where is their success Huh what? I use Firefox and I'm actually very happy with it.
    • FirmwareBurner 3y ago
      We clearly have different definitions of what product and business success represents for a large tech company.
    • benjaminsuch 3y ago
      Sure, but this is not the criteria for a company to be successful or not.
      • dheera 3y ago
        Since when do you get to define the criteria? I'm a happy user, I consider that a success in my book.
        • seniorivn 3y ago
          and what about their book? inability to put yourself into someone else's shoes, is a very big flag. A red one in my book.
• Jcampuzano2 3y ago
  Even if it were "not that high" for a CEO, what would justify a 7x increase while things have been looking downhill for years? If anything, the board should have gotten rid of her at this point and hired someone else, even if at this higher salary it would make more sense than sticking with someone who obviously hasn't been leading the company to growth or sustainability (since they are trending downards).
• matwood 3y ago
  I'll agree with you that the CEO salary is fine. What isn't fine is the CEO's performance. They should be replaced.